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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18
SEVENTH ANNUAL
SPECIAL SALE
OF
READY-MADE BEDWEAR.

The steady growth of our trade in Ready-
made Sheets, Bolsters and Pillow cases has Mt
times taxed the utmost capacity Of our work
ing facilities. Through extra efforts we have
made up a rather large stock of these goods
and call attention to the following extraordi-
nary values:
Bleaehed Ready-Eade Sheets.
1914 Sheets q yards lopg, Csc each, 30
per dozen. 1914 Sheets, % yards long, extra
fine, Gle each 90 per dozen. lO-4 Sheets
II yards long, extra heavy, 75c each, 50
per dozen lo-4 Sheets, ~ yards long best
made, soc each, > 90 per ao1ss. "a Sheets
III Yards long, sHly H5e each, 0 50 per dszsn
81 Sheets, n yards long, saly 65s each,
so per dozen. GA Sheets, II yards long
for cot beds, ACC each, 50 per dozen. IA
Sheets, u yards long, for ; beds, SOC each,
IS per dozen.
Ready-made Pillow Cases
Sd Pillow Cases, yard long, zoe each,
90 per dozen. 5-4 Pillow Gases. yard
long, extra heavy, Csc each, so per dozen.
Cd Pillow Cases | yard long, 25c each, 70
per dozen Ga Pillow Cases, l yard long,
extra fine 3Oc each, Is per dozen.
Ready-made Bolster cases.
Bolster Cases, 81 yards long, 35e each
Bolster Cases, y yards long, extra, 40c each.
Ready-made UnbIeached sheets
1914 Sheets, p yards long, only 65c each,
80 per dozen.
81 Sheets, ?! yards long, only COO each,
90 per dozen.
IA Sheets, ! yards long, only soc each,
IS per dozen
6-4 Sheets, ,! yards long, only 45c each,
% per dozen.
Ready-made Unbleached Pillow
Cases
ID Pillow Cases lsc each, 10 per dozen.
as inch Pillow Cases, zoe each, 2 90 per
dozen.
This sale offers an excellent opportunity for
bote land restaurant keepers, boarding house
keepers steamboat pursers, keepers Of public
and private institutions, and the public in
general to lay in supply for some time to
come. as We are positive that no lower prices
on these qualities can possibly be quoted in
this or any city.
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COLLECTORS SALE.

COLLECTORS SALE.
Wy virtue of authority vested in me rs Col
ID lcctor ofTaxes Tor tho 4th Collection bis
trict of Charles county, will sell at public
sale, to the highest bidder for cash, on the
premises,
FRIDAY, March 18th, 1887,
between and o. clock p m, the following
property, to satisfy State and county taxes,
due for the year 1888, to wit:
A tract or parcel Of land lying in 4th Col
lection District called
Lucknow,
containing
500 Acres; more or less.
assessed in the name of Miss Maggie Bowling.
Due for county tax, 1885,. S7S 90
Due for State tax, lSS5......... IA 90
Interest from Jan. | 1886.
The above real property will be sold hy the
Collector as authorized by the Act of 1874,
chapter 4s3, and the proceeds will be applied
to the payment Of the taxes for the above
year with the interest and all costs that NAV
accrue under this sale
ALEX. c. MONTGOMERY,
feb l8-ct late Collector 4th District.
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NOTICE.
COK'S STATION.

! nm now prepared to do all the Saving
and Grinding that NAV be needed by the far
mers in my section Nv facilities are ample
for good and rapid work.
Grinding days.-W Wednesdays and Satur-
DAYS Saving done on shares or for cash -
| wish to inform my friends and the public
that owing to the hard times in this neigh
borhood and the scarcity Of money, am COM
PEELED 10 exact the cash on delivery and 4
will be use Is, to ask for credit Positively !
will not grant it, Ny business hereafter will
be conducted on a strict cash basis.
Lumber Shingles aud Ltths, etc; always
on hand or sawed at the shortest notice. All
kind Of vehicles repaired and all kinds OF
farming implements made and repaired at a
short notice All work done in my shops
are guaranteed Should any PERSONS work
give way by reason of workmanship il shall
he again repaired free Of charge il brought
back to my shop. Thanking the public for
p,st flyors, hope o share their patronage in
The future c F. HAYDEN,
Cox's Station, Charles county, Md.
Al the residence OF the above named person
keep constantly on hand II small line of
groceries 10 salt the country trade. Call and
buy +. A. c. HAYDEN. jan tim
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"Part OF BOA "man's NJ
33 Acre; more or less.


containing
33 Acre; more or less.
Assessed in the name Of Miss Mar. G Smith.
Due for county tax, 1891 ........S6 81
Due for State tax. 1884. ........ l p
Interest from Jan |, 1885.
Due for County Tax, l8S5.....S7 OF
Due for State Tax, lS35....... -
Interest from Jan. |. 1856.
The above property will be sold hy the
Collector as authorized by the Act Of 1874
chapter 483 and the proceeds viii ne ,ppli-d
to the payment Of the taxes for the above ,c,rs,
with the interest ana all costs they may accure
under this sale.
ALEX. c. MONTGOMERY,
feb lS-ct late Collector 4th District
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Chapel Point Nill.

TINE undersigned having rented. thorough
ly repaired and refurnished the above
mill, are now prepared to receive grist of all
kinds. Wednesdays Of each week for grind
ing wheat. W. keep constantly on hand II
large supply Of meal ia exchange for corn We
will serve the public at any time of day from
o clock a. N. to 8 o clock p. M
SM00T Il CROSS, Proprietors.
aug l3-lm
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BIG REDUCTION
IN THE
PRICES OF DRY GOODS
Carriers
Popular Cash Dry Goods store
III Market Space, near 7th Street
w aShingto ton.

Asirakhan Cloth, all pure wool. over o,s
yard aud half wide, heavy weight reduced
to 10. Beautiful Dress Goods pnre wooi
chudda serge, wide double width. aIl colors
reduced TO 81 cts. Royal serge, vide doubs
fold, all colors J yards for 90. IIomesnnn
Dress Goods, extra width, reduced 10 2sc,s
CameIs Hair liomespun Dress Goods mi nnre
fine wool wide double width. cash vii,o
624 cts. price reduced to 45 cts Color.j
Cashmeres, wide double fold. all eolors 10
yards for 80 Great reduction in tho nrices
OF colored and black cashmeres, brocsde silks
and brectde silk yelvets, satin and fine dress
goods. Heavy Gro Grain Black Silks rednc.
cd TO co. Fancy silks, SIC, 4Oc. &c ana
Soc. Piano covers, handsomely ernbroidersd
with silk, IS. Extra large size white Wool
blankets, reduced to 2 IS. DoubI. wbits
Blankets, 90. Heavy bed comforts, 75c
Black Cashmere Shtwls, pure wool "a
Immense assortment Of cloth, for men aha 6ov
wear, zoe, Bic, Bee, soc to 90.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Each customer who nus 10 90 worth Of Drv
Goods, will receive a large size handsome bril-
aal quilt worth ! 20 or pair Of fine linen
d"mask extra large size, worth / 90.
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Muslin Chemiscs.


so dozen Ladies Muslin Chemise, YOKE OF
five CLUSTERS OF three fine tucke, worth zoe,
ou.y ~ each.
3 dozen Ladies Muslin Ghemise, yoke OF
hae Hamburg embroidery, trimmed around
neGi and sleeves with Cambria rutlie, worth
$50 only 2jc each.
100 d-zrn Ladies Fine Muslin square neck
Chtuise, Yoke Of hec rows of Hamburg in
selt ing AMI four cluster. ct tine tack., neck
anil sleeves trimmed with Hamburg cmbrod-
er'l worth SOC, only soc each.
Muslin walking skirts
Is dozsn Ladies Muslin Walking Skirts,
tri bme'i With Cambria rniEc, edged with tour
fnf tacki headed With two clusters Of four
iuI tucks, only SOC each
50 dozen Ladies' Muslin Walking Skirts,
wiFh wide Cambria rule, edged with wide
FL ibroidcry, TWO clusters Of three tutks each
in the rutllc, with four tucks aboye, worth
/ ~. only ! 90 rIrh.
Lusiin Night Dresses.
80 Ladir, Muslin Night Gowns, Mother
Hut. trout, yoke Of four clusters Of three
idc rucks. ttinmc% around the neck ana
sreYcs 9TH Cambria rutr, worth 500, onl ,
50c each
50 dozen Ladies Muslin Mother Hubbard
Nigtt Gowns, yoke OF siX clusters OF eight
i,s tucks, trimmed around neck. aud sleeves
"ih iuckcd Cambria rulllr, worth S7!c only
65c each.
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$50 dozen ladies Muslin Corset Covers,
good quality of cotton, thoroughly made fin
ished seams. buttons and button holes High
neck on l2!c each. Low neck only ] sc each
loo dozen Ladies Cambria Corset Covers
four clusters OF three tucks down the front
meek trimmed with lace worth 33c, only 25c
each
loo dozen LADIES Fine Cambria Corset
Covers V-scapcd neck, trimmed with liam
burg cdging, worth az, only 29c each.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27

An oculist must have invented some of the
popular yelling now in use 1t enhances his
income beyond belief. The dancing dots on
lace tissues raise the very mischief with
women's eyesight When a veil is tightly
tied about womans head, as is now the
fashion, the dots are stationary, but the pan
Drama that passes the vision INSTRUCTED by
thin dots has the same effect as if they were
jumping necessarily about One day l rode
a mile or SO on an elevated train with my
eyes on the houses that were whirling past.
/ had on veil of some colored lace. on which
was squirted pretty good sized dots of some
pasty composition that looked like beads.
When left the train, to my horror, every
thing was a dazzle. l could not perfectly
make out single object. 1t was impossible
to read sign, and for an bour l was in per-
feet misery. That experience frightened me.
never wear one of those pronounced dotted
wells so long as am not blind-Clara Bellies
Letter
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27

The olice have commenced their an
nual deadly warfare on the unfortunate
canine whose master has not given him
the municipal privilege of remaining one
of the beasts of the universe-or that
part of it included within the corpor-
ate limits of the city of Rock Island.
Every dog that wanders out upon the
street without that little c. T. p. check
now, may expect to fall victim to the
fate of many of his fellow creatures who
have gone before So that all own
ers of dogs should guard them by
having them checked and seeing that the
checks are worn.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27

Officer Cary this morning found the
satchel stolen from the ladies' waiting
room of the C., B. & A. depot, under the
sidewalk near the Childrens Carriage
works. The thieves proved TO be small
bovs-children of respectable parents
who made up the amount of money
stolen, and the case vas settled OF the
50 10 in the satchel, only So go remained
when found.
A neighborhood disturbance terminal
ed in case before Magistrate Bennett
last evening. when, on complaint of Jennie
Merrill, Catherine Patten was fined So
and costs for using offensive language.
Today Catherine Patten sought revenge
by having Jennie Merrill and JAS. Merrill
arrested on the same charge. The case
is being heard this afternoon. NJ NJ. Cor
bett and E. E. Parmenter being the op>
posing counsel. The parties live on
First street between Sixth and Seventh
avenues.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27
THE NEW SYNDICATE.
The Plat Accepted The Next Steps,
The Broadway Church's Offer.

The Plat Accepted--Th Next Steps,
The Broadway Church's Offer.
A meeting of the new South Park Syn
dictate was held last evening, when the
plat OF the new addition drawn by Secre>
tary Whitehead in accordance with the
surveys recently made, was accepted. and
it was decided to take steps to have the
council ratify it. The plat is a very
pretty one, showing four blocks already
laid out into 232 lots. of which 90 to IS
have already been spoken for.
A communication was received from
Rev. W. s. Marquis, of the Broadway
Presbyterian church, asking for the lot
which, it is understood, is to be donated
for chapel, and pledging on the part of
the church the erection of chapel and
maintenance of religious services if the
lot was decided the congregation of the
church of which he is pastor The com
muDication was placed on file for future
reference, but the probabilities are that
the proposition will receive favorable
consideration.
1t is stated upon reliable authority that
property in the viciI ity of the South
Park addition on the Elm street bluff, has
advanced one hundred per cent since the
formation of the syndicate There prom
ises 10 be a little town in itself estab,
lished up In that part of Rock Island
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27
CONDENSED NEWS.

Congressman Cannon is being doomed for
governor of Illinois by some of the Repub-
hcan papers
Boston dealers in religious books confirm
the statement that the revised edition of the
Bible is drug in the market
George B Allen, of St Louis, who recently
died, left an estate valued at Sc, 100000 He
made requests amounting to about 500, 900
to various public objects
Mrs. John O'Day, wife of the WE'LL known
politician and railroad official of that name,
was granted divorce with $4,000 alimony.
at ST Louis Tuesday, On the ground of deser-
ton.
An Irish constable, who resigned out of
di gust with the coer ion act, has been made
the subj ct of an enthusiastic popular demon
stration at Dublin. Other constables have
resigned for the same reason.
The Central and South American Tele-
graph company has been gran ed authority
to build and operate line across the isthmus
of Panama and to extend its cables along the
Atlantic co st of South America.
DIR. E D. Standiford, prominent Ken
lucky capitalist and politician, died suddenly
at Louisville Tuesday. The deceased, who
was 30 years old, was married but a fort
night ago He was an aspirant for the United
States senatorship to succeed Mr. Beck.
Sir George NJ. Pullman, who has Just re.
turned from Europe, declares that Mr.
Blaine's visit to England has no political
significance, Sir George proposes to intro
dnce into America a system of storing cleo
tricity for the lighting of cars which is in
successful operation in England
The Glen bill, recently introduced in the
& 'orgla legislature, providing faA separate
white and colored schools and f1f SHARP
drawing of the coor-line in other public mat
ters, has created intense Indignation among
The negroes of the state, who are making
strenuous efforts to secure its defeat
The commissioner of pensions has received a
request from pensioner in Kansas to be taken
OF the list of government dependents The
Kansas man explains that he has been cured
81 his disabilities by faith in the Lord, but
addS that there wasn't much the matter with
bun, anyhow, so that the blessed Lord had
very lttle to do
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27
RI. Rui. Al couiueai far.ner.bip:.

Among the poor, particularly the thrifty
and industrious poor. the woman OF the
household, be she wife or daughter, has much
more control in dispensing the daily OF
weekly wage than women on a higher social
plane; men of Drawn, when sensible and
kindly, practice more generous rule of con
jugal partnership than is usual amongst men
Of brain, though these iatter's earnings are
on such scale Of plenty that unless we look
below the surface regulations and equipments
Of the home we fail to discover the false
financial relations that exist between husband
and wife For wives, as a class, have no
spending money, and are rarely cognizant of
their husbands true business condition. Is
this just to the being man has promised to
honor as well as TO lover
Women are accused Of heing mean and
any one who has ever served on a collecting
committee knows how, in forming list of
possible subscribers, name after name is
omitted with the remark, "No use going 10
her, she never gives" or @She has no money
and yet the husband of ashe" is invariably
man of means or ample professional income,
who pays extravagant household and per.
sonal bills for his family, usually with willing
good nature. 1t is only when money is asked
for that Q Tightening Of the purse strings in
stinctively takes place, and the unblushing
query is made, "Why, little woman, what did
you do with the S. l gave you last week9"
We have heard such question put to be-
loved wife by man whose yearly expenses
were at least $4,000, and who, the next
week, gave the same wife valuable diamond
ear rings, and always encouraged her to dress
extravagantly and live luxuriously
Now such a state of economic slavery-and
it is widespread-is destructive of the help
meet relation which should exist between
man and wife, and which must exist if the
wife is not to suffer many needless and cruel
heartburns and notifications, nay, if char
acter is to escape dwaring and distortion. A
small minded woman who cares for her bus
band, and is kindly treated by him-well
housed, fed, clothed, amused-contentedly
accepts condition of things to which, doubt
less, she has been accustomed in the home of
her youth, grows less and less capable, gen
erous, and thoughtful of outside claims as the
years roll by, and when she wants money for
some special purpose, cajoles or deceives to
secure it. But who can measure the chatting
and discomfort of the nobler creature who,
equally caring and being cared for, still in the
midst of plenty suffers penury, because
powerless to dispense help after her own judg-
ment-in reference to claims she alone can
~eigh-without appearing before her lord
and master first as sIppliant for definite
sum and then as witness to he cross
examined to why and how she wants 20
much cash -Harper's Bazar~
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27

Physically, the gypsy woman is not always
handsome As a maiden she is always at
tractive With advancing age she may lose
her roundness, her color, her strange almost
winginess; hut she never loses her glowing
eyes, nor is she ever feeble or hesitant in
movement to her dying day. Gypsy women
as a rule long outlive gypsy men; and though
| know a score of them past 90, never saw
one of these hedames who had not q vigur
and elasticity far superior to those of your
American women at 80 Scrawny as she may
become. she ever retains O seemingly ex-
haustless spirit, and a certain personal
charm which, while almost undefinable may
perhaps be best suggested as that uncon-
scious physical tribute to the splendid phys
ical correctness of her own life, with which
nature ever responds, and invariably logi-
cally bestows What is true of one is true
of all in this regard; and the same universal
ity of kind of unframed but ever certain
intuitive intellect also holds good All
things considered. | believe them inherently
to be the brightest of women Their judg-
ment is unerring They proceed to immedi-
ate results. They have a backdoor out of
every difficulty. Vixen, virago, and even
hellion to the Gorgio or non-gypsy, she pos
sesses all the virtues of wife, mother, friend,
among her own; and in this startling contrast
lies not only her chief interest as human
study, but her apparently wondrous power Of
sorcery and divination
In patience, loyalty, cheerfulness, she is the
peer of the noblest type of woman In sue
cess she is never less thrifty, never less judi
cious and saving. In adversely she is bound
less in resource. In sickness she is the nurse
of all nurses. In good cheer she is the wine
of the feast. Indeed, the gypsy wife and
mother is a model forEour pretentious women
who are coming to regard the world endlessly
their debtor because of their mere existence
In it, and the entire social system as neces-
sarily slavish to their within. But to every
thing and everybody outside her own envi-
roment she wishes to be known, and truly is,
about as much a witch as the enlightened
mind can conceive. In that very seeming
and actually lie all the supposed power of
the gypsy fortune teller. All there Is in that
power is just what, because you arc not so
perfect pretender in her line as she, open
mouthed, you believe TO be.-Edgar l. Wake.
mans Letter
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27

Mr.. and Mrs John Westphal and three
children encountered an unpleasant ca
tastrophe while driving on Elm street last
evening. The horse became frightened
at some object unnoticed by the occu>
pants of the vehicle and became suddenly
uncomfortable, the buggy being capsized
and all were thrown out, all receiving
severe bruises. Mr.. Westpbal appeared
to have sustained the most painful in
juries, though none escaped entirely ex-
cept the little girl None were seriously
injured, however, and all are doing nicely
today under DR.. Bernhardi's care
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27
Sacrificing His wife's Relations

A funny incident in connection with the
relief fund of the Pennsylvania Railroad Re
lief association is related by an employee.
The company buried The body of an smploye
and forwarded to the mans father in Italy u
check for $500 The old man was so over
joyed at securing so much money for the loss
of a son tina. he Immediately dispatched an
other son to this country, with instructions
to get job on the Pennsylvania railroad and
become a member of the association He is
still working Oh the road Chicago Times
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27

NEw York. July 81 Fourteen people
were overcome by the heat Tuesday The
highest points Of the mercury was q? At 10
O'Clock at night remarkable thunder storm
came up, hut did not cool the air to any ex-
tent Nih the storm came a thunderholt
that caused some trepidation to people down
town. The arrival of the bolt was marked
by an explosion resembling the discharge of
u cannon At Hndnut's pharmacy in The
Herald building, a ball of fire ignited in the
air near the soda water fountain TO the de-
moraiization OF the clerks and customers.
An ambulance on its way to the hospital with
a woman suffering from hysterla was struck
by the lightning and the driver and surgeon
we're both partly paralyzel The woman
WIS uniniured
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27

At the meeting of the Rock Island
Building Loan and Savings association
last evening. the motion by which the
treasurer, j F. Robinson, was elected
was reconsidered and the office de-
clared vacant. The reason of this, it
is alleged, is the fact that Mr.. Robinson
has become one of the incorporators and
the treasurer of the new Black Hawk
cOmDADy
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27

A Washington correspondent who has been
visiting the British house Of commons writes
from London: "Ihe business of government
here is done much more i'll the light of open
lay than with us, These questions are first
formally submitted in writing. then printed
and the members of the cabinet given Ger
tain brief time, if necessary, to prepare an
swers. Any curious British citizen who wants
to know anything about any matter of policy
can have question put into the house hop
per by his member, and an answer is sure to
be ground out at an early day kansas Cit,
Times
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27
Seut Up for Eighteen Years.

CHICAGO, July % Lawrence Krug, who
has been on trial for some days on the charge
of poisoning Lucy Heidelmeyer, his step
daughter. in order to get her insurance
money, was convicted By the jury Tuesday
and his punishment fixed at eighteen years in
the panitentiary The fact of the existence
of poison in Miss Hedelmeyer's system was
fully proved. and the testimony was very
strong against Krug. In view of the fact
that two wives of Krug have died under cir
cunStaaces strongly suggestive of poison,
his punishment does not appear to be too
heavy
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-27

LEBANON, Tenn, July 27-N G. Lester,
a harness maker, Tuesday morning killed J.
T. Lane, 3 lawyer, and one of the most prom.
inent citizens of this place. Lester walked ur
to within twenty feet of Lane and emptied
both barrels of a shotgun loaded with buck
shot into him, killing him instantly. Lester
says he did the deed deliberately, becauss
Lane had debauched his wife by promising
to secure her a large amount Of pension
money due her former husband Lester is
NOW in iali in Nashville.